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If the committee rules against him, Avenir can appeal the decision to the university's senate.
=='This isn't any different from any library study groups or peer tutoring' says Ryerson student Chris Avenir, who is being accused by the school of academic misconduct for being involved in a Facebook study group.==

(CBC)
==Avenir said Thursday he joined the online chemistry study group Dungeons/Mastering Chemistry Solutions last fall, then took charge of it as an administrator. The group was named after a study room known by students as the Dungeon.==

A search for the group on Facebook now turns up nothing. On his profile page on Facebook, Avenir wrote Thursday he is "overwhelmed with support and midterms."
==Ryerson spokesman James Norrie declined to comment specifically on the case. But he said, speaking generally on academic policy, that the university has a responsibility to ensure students are doing their own work.==

"We want them to achieve. But that also means that they sometimes have to do the hard work of learning and not take the easy way out," he said.
==Norrie, also director of the Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management at Ryerson, said the university must ensure any charge of academic misconduct is investigated, and academic integrity is protected.== =="It is not fair to students to perpetuate the myth — and it is a myth — that they can do what they like online and that they're protected because that's only a forum for young people where they can do what they want to do, and that's really not accurate," he said.==

=="It is our job to protect academic integrity from any threat. And if that threat comes from new online tools, we have a responsibility as academics to understand the risks, to assess those risks and threats, and to educate people about how to avoid misconduct."==

"It's just completely ridiculous."
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/03/06/facebook-study.html